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The New Science of Retailing
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The New Science of Retailing

by Marshall Fisher, Ananth Raman
June 2010
Beginner to intermediate
272 pages
6h 29m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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CHAPTER ONE

Retail Valuation

How Investors Value Product Availability and Inventory Management

Retailers beware! David Berman is watching you. Berman, general partner of Berman Capital Management in New York, invests in retail stocks, often after investigating a retailer’s inventory levels.1 He’s a member of an emerging group of rocket science investors who believe that operational data, such as inventory levels, foretell future increases or decreases in sales, earnings, and share price. Publicly traded retailers must understand how investors like Berman operate in order to effectively communicate with them. This chapter offers guidelines on how you can do so. Moreover, adopting the investor’s perspective can help you benchmark your firm’s ...

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ISBN: 9781422160640